11 – 22 November 2024 | Baku, Azerbaijan
NEW REPORT: Public Climate Finance for Food Systems Transformation
In 2022, the Global Alliance released a report uncovering a critical gap in climate finance for food systems. Food systems are responsible for one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions and the climate crisis disproportionately impacts smallholder farmers, fishers, pastoralists, and Indigenous Peoples who are on the frontlines of the crisis. But only a small fraction of climate finance—less than 3%—was being allocated to fix food systems. This gap highlighted an urgent need to put food systems at the center of climate action and climate funding.
This 2024 update of Public Climate Finance for Food Systems Transformation shows that despite an overall increase in climate finance between 2017 and 2022, the portion of funding for food systems has slipped further, down from 3% to 2.5%, and even further when we consider sustainable food systems, at just 1.5%. This report underscores the urgent need to significantly boost climate finance for sustainable food systems and calls attention to the need for funding to reach communities.
Meet the COP29 Frontline Food Leaders
To highlight the crucial intersection of food systems and the climate crisis, we are privileged to support seventeen frontline food leaders from around the world to highlight their perspectives at COP29.
Each brings powerful testimonies and a strong record of championing food sovereignty and climate justice. They represent communities faced with the hard realities of adapting to a changing climate while also forging ahead with solutions based on agroecological approaches.
Read more about our COP29 Frontline Food Leaders here.
Meet the COP29 Frontline Food Leaders
If you are a journalist covering COP29, Global Alliance spokespeople are available for comment and interviews. Please contact:
Dharini Parthasarathy, Communications Director
E: dharini@futureoffood.org or comms@futureoffood.org.
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